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ASIC chairman Joe Longo is in Washington DC and New York this week, discussing private credit and a dearth of IPOs with regulators and Wall Street...
Rather than stopping his spending spree or growing the economic pie, the treasurer continues to reach for higher taxes, more debt, and bigger...
If reform focuses only on tightening access and raising thresholds, we’ll treat the symptom, not the cause.
The Aligned Data Centers deal was fortuitous, coming while the group’s ability to recycle assets and pull off big sales was increasingly being...
A jump in the unemployment rate to 4.5 per cent puts a rate cut in play, but the Reserve Bank will wait for crucial inflation data before making a...
If treasurers continue to mortgage tomorrow for today’s projects, they risk being priced out of the future altogether.
Regaining its reputation for lower taxes and smaller deficits won’t be easy as it will require telling a population which has lost its fear of debt...
Trump’s latest piece of brinkmanship with China is likely to result in another climbdown.
The lie is that Israel is a settler-colonialist state, a nonnative invasive species that has no place in that land.
Whatever one thinks of Beijing, Xi has set clear policy objectives – to dominate high-tech industries and use them as leverage against the US – and...
Past mistakes have shown us the longer governments stick with mistakes, the harder the politics becomes – as Jim Chalmers has learned and as Anika...
Sure, tax reform is very politically difficult. But we shouldn’t gild the lily that Jim Chalmers’ original superannuation tax proposal was serious...
It’s a serious acknowledgement that society can no longer allow young people to use these platforms unchecked.
Australian Strategic Materials was among ASX-listed miners enjoying a surging valuation this week. Chief executive Rowena Smith explains what...
The treasurer got knocked off his policy high horse, but he’s already back in the saddle claiming victory.
Philippe Aghion gave a rapid-fire tour de force on innovation, markets, and competition. On AI, he said past predictions of mass job destruction “...
A ceasefire and hostage release are cause for celebration. But big questions remain about the rest of the Trump plan.
Japan kept interest rates low for decades, creating thousands of “walking dead” businesses. This is now the danger for the United States.
Anthony Albanese leads the most stable federal government in two decades by drawing a line on internal political drama. But stability can cause its...
The real problem is the misallocation of housing created and reinforced by policies that entrench intergenerational wealth divides.
Trump has upended conventional foreign policy wisdom and the expectations of his critics who painted him as a bete noire in international relations.
Jim Chalmers “backflip” on super is nothing like it appears to be. The government just turned a zombie tax budget measure into $1.6 billion.
Anthony Albanese will talk co-operation on critical minerals with Donald Trump. But Australia is in a tough and competitive race to deliver.
Once the fighting in Gaza has concluded, it will be interesting to see how engaged with the Palestinian issue the government remains.
Sensible tax reform, grounded in compromise and sound debate, paves the way for more reform.
It’s Labor’s opportunity to face the music on their own fiscal mismanagement and stop relying on tax-by-stealth cash grabs to plug holes in the...
Political fears ultimately forced Jim Chalmers to water down the super tax. It’s a lesson that when your own side tells you a policy is bad you...
A former Future Fund investor aims to rewrite the rules on how the California Public Employees Retirement System manages money. Others may be...
We can pay for lower electricity emissions without lowering our living standards – something that is now well and truly worth paying for.
A coherent framework should be developed for deciding which industries and assets are genuinely strategic and get government financial support, and...
Ideally the US develops a coordinated strategy with Australia to plug gaps in the global minerals supply chain instead of creating an end-to-end US...
Compared to copper and aluminium smelter bailouts, there is a strong strategic case to overturn Australia’s traditional reliance on comparative...
Why, after 35 years of reform, are financial services ‘entrepreneurs’ so easily able to get past investor protection laws policed by ASIC and APRA...
Optimists cite what they see as key differences between the failed January ceasefire and today. While accurate, neither necessarily foreshadows...
The Conservative English politician was gravely concerned about the effect of uncontrolled migration by people from different cultures.